This guide covers all the content and system updates coming in the Warlords of Draenor prepatch--before the expansion hits.

The Warlords of Draenor prepatch is coming on October 14th. This patch contains many system and UI changes for Warlords of Draenor--you just can’t access Draenor content or level to 100. You can access things in the prepatch like new character models, the 6.0 prelaunch event, the Toy Box, and new raid difficulties.

The prepatch also removes some Mists of Pandaria content, such as starting the legendary questline, finishing MoP Challenge Modes, obtaining the Reins of the Kor'kron War Wolf, and purchasing heirlooms for Justice Points. We’ve put together a guide documenting everything that’s going away if you want to obtain some vanity gear and achievements before it’s too late!

Patch 6.0 is the pre-patch for Warlords of Draenor and it has many notable changes such as the item squish and toy box. This guide focuses on the mounts, pets, titles, and other items that you want to collect before 6.0 hits since they're going away!

Blue Tweets on Datamined Class Changes

We know it's hard to keep up with tweet traffic, especially at busy times like this, so we've put together a post sorting all the tweets about the patch 6.0 Datamining into class and spell conversations. We'll keep adding to this as the day progresses, so do check back if you need an update, and of course there's the Wowhead Blue Tweet Tracker and @WowheadTweets on Twitter!

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>PSA: We&#39;re currently in the middle of implementing many changes. Damage values that you see in data mining are not nerfs.</p>&mdash; Celestalon (@Celestalon) <a href="https://twitter.com/Celestalon/statuses/469344661861974016">May 22, 2014</a></blockquote><script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></scr

In today's roundup we have a mount tease, as you can see, but there's also a post on gear changes from Blizzard. You can now not only upgrade your gear twice more come patch 5.4.8, but there's also a way being added to trade Timeless Coins for Valor. Not only that, but all Garrosh heirlooms will be increased in ilvl by 8, as Bashiok notes on the official forums.

All items will have their stats and socket bonuses squished. In addition, items that have hit and expertise will have those stats removed and converted into a useful secondary stat like haste, crit, or mastery. Spirit will no longer be found on armor pieces as well (it can still be found on non-armor pieces like necks).

You can see these gear changes by visiting wod.wowhead.com. Or, if you're on an item's specific page, click on the "Warlords of Draenor" text at the top left to be taken to the Warlords version of the page.

You can also see other stat changes in our Warlords database such as consumables, and gems.

In additional, several rewards will no longer be obtainable in upcoming patches. Some of these changes are coming in 6.0, others are hitting a couple months later for WoD. Players who have already obtained these rewards will hold onto them:

Garrosh Heirlooms: Click here for a full list. These will be easier to get when 6.0 hits including a 100% chance of getting a spec-appropriate heirloom if you've gotten none. These weapons are later removed in Warlords of Draenor.

What is remaining: You can still go for all achievements like Glory of the Orgrimmar Raider, transmog set, all of the battle pets, and the titles associated for killing Garrosh.

The raid difficulties will change names in 6.0 as well. The Flexible raid tier will be removed. Instead of LFR, Flex, Normal and Heroic, there will be LFR, Normal, Heroic, and Mythic. Group Finder allows players to form cross-realm groups on Normal and Heroic.

Outside of the blog, it was revealed on Twitter today that NPCs will be added that let you solo queue for old LFRs and scenarios. In the future, it will be easier to pick up all those LFR-specific tier colors for transmog!

Fiery Mechanical Horse Mount

The official @Warcraft Twitter recently posted a teaser and picture of a new mount. The tweet text seems to imply that the mount could be an upcoming Recruit-A-Friend reward. It could well relate to this placeholder mount: The Equinator!

Our Warlords of Draenor Database has recently been updated with icons, so we've broken down all of the new items for you! The icons cover various professions, Garrisons, and armor. We've datamined recipes and reagents for many of the profession icons below--check them out here.

We've also gotten a lot of icons for upcoming armor, including gear tied to LFR, PvP, Dungeons, and Quests. There is also a set of gear called "Draenei Guard."

Also be sure to check out the rest of our recent Warlords of Draenor datamining and coverage:

For the last 12 hours, we've been handling file formatting changes and posting datamined info on glyphs, professions, and more, which you can read about here. This has been a huge effort on the part of everyone involved on Wowhead--we're thrilled to bring you expansion information so quickly.

Due to massive file changes on Blizzard's end, which were covered at the very top of their Alpha Announcement blog, datamining and refining the data to be user-friendly is more complex than usual. We will continue to improve on our launched database, refine the existing data, and add more data like icons and maps in the future.